The Garden of Earthly Delights, that's the name of this beautiful house carried out by the architecture studio QB architects. This one-storey house is designed to introduce the landscape into the rooms. for its inhabitants, Waking up in this home every day is like waking up in the Garden of Earthly Delights.
Its owners came from living in an apartment with great views, which caused them to continually surprise themselves by observing nature, like someone who contemplates a work of art. This situation allowed them to enjoy the greatness of nature, but only on a visual level, since they could never touch it or become part of it.
Although it is a wonderful and very rewarding situation for the soul, after ten years, they needed introduce nature into their lives in a more active way, coming down from heaven to earth to be able to touch it.
Housing starting point
The architects Beatriz Garcia Morales and Enrique Chapa, took as their starting point a very powerful landscape defined fundamentally by a pine forest. The light filtered through the treetops is inspiring. This light is changing with the seasons, protecting the house from the heat and letting in warm light in winter to avoid the cold.
This brings a very maternal component to the house, making you feel sheltered and embraced by the forest, with that fascinating and seductive point generated by the rays of light filtered through the leaves.
The house is in full contact with the ground, thus blurring the boundaries between exterior and interior. The landscape becomes an active part of everyday life, to turn the house into a very Garden of delights.
housing skin
The atmosphere of the house is maintained through a ceramic skin that works like a veil that wraps the house. The exterior landscape is introduced inside the house, achieving a vision filtered by different skins.
Lattice with bioclimatic component
QB architects design an innovative ceramic lattice, which emulates the flashes of natural light filtered by pine needles. This lattice provides privacy to the bedrooms and provides them with a pixelized light similar to that which filters through the cracks of a half-open blind.
On the other hand, its metallic fabrics and meshes have a more natural character, seeking to evoke those blankets and sweaters knitted by grandmothers with which to snuggle up in bed and feel hugged. These continuous perforated fabrics, with skipped stitches, reflect the concept of home.
The house seems as if it has always been there, completely blending in with the place, with the landscape.
QB architects accompanies the client in all the processes involved in the creation of a home, both in the search for the plot and in the choice of the builder and, especially, in its design and construction.
Beatriz Garcia Morales and Enrique Chapa, a team of QB architects, founded the studio in 2005, since then they have already carried out more than 50 homes working in the cities of Valencia, Dénia, Jávea, Moraira and Madrid, always with the aim of creating special and unique properties for each client.
Contact QB architects
| C / Cándida Carbonell, 6 (Dénia) View in Google Maps | |
| 96 578 22 46 | |
| C / Mártires Concepcionistas, 18 (Madrid) View in Google Maps | |
| 617 36 32 65 | |
| C/ Pintor Ricardo Verde 12 ground floor (València) View in Google Maps | |
| 679 96 85 26 | |
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